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American colonists dump British tea into Boston Harbor in the Boston Tea Party, 16 December 1773, illustration from The History of North America by W. D. Cooper. London: E. Newberry, 1789. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

A political cartoon satirizing the Edenton Tea Party, when 51 women signed an agreement to boycott British goods in October 1774. The ladies are depicted as rowdy in an attempt to ridicule the idea of women involved in politics. Cartoon attributed...

An 1881 oil on canvas, Luncheon of the Boating Party, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. A typical Renoir scene of relaxed young people of different classes in one of the artist’s favourite places, the...

An 1893-4 oil on canvas, The Boating Party, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. Cassatt here takes her frequent mother and child subject and inserts it into a boating scene. (National Gallery of Art, Washington...

The Petticoat affair, also called the Eaton affair, was a political scandal that rocked Washington, D.C., from 1829 to 1831, during the early years of Andrew Jackson's presidency. Revolving around the rumored sexual promiscuity of Peggy Eaton...

A scene from a stone Etruscan sarcophagus showing a drinking party. Chiusi, 6th century BCE. (Staatliche Museum, Berlin)

Artist's impression of a Norse raiding party landing at the coast. Created by Amplitude Studios for the video game Humankind.

The Whiskey Rebellion was a violent uprising that occurred in western Pennsylvania in 1794, in opposition to an excise tax on liquor. After anti-tax protestors assaulted federal tax collectors and threatened to march on Pittsburgh, President...

James Madison (1751-1836) was a statesman, diplomat, and a Founding Father of the United States, who served as the fourth US president from 1809 to 1817. He played an important role in the drafting of the United States Constitution and the...

Discover what led American colonists in 1773 CE to toss tea into the Boston Harbor in what became known as the Boston Tea Party. — Before the Revolutionary War, American colonists were taxed heavily for importing tea from Britain. The...